What Is JAXP?

This section provides a quick introduction of Java API for XML Processing (JAXP) that included in JDK 1.6.

What is JAXP? JAXP (Java API for XML Processing) is Java API that enables Java applications to parse, transform, validate and query XML documents independent of a particular XML processor implementation. JAXP provides a pluggability layer to enable vendors to provide their own implementations without introducing dependencies in application code. Using this software, application and tool developers can build fully-functional XML-enabled Java applications for e-commerce, application integration, and web publishing.

JAXP specification is maintained as JSR (Java Specification Requests) 206 by JCP (Java Community Process), see https://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=206.

Here is the JAXP version history and related Java Platforms:

JAXP 1.6: Java Platform, Standard Edition 8 and above
JAXP 1.5: Java Platform, Standard Edition 7 and above
JAXP 1.4: Java Platform, Standard Edition 6 and above
JAXP 1.3: Java Platform, Standard Edition 5 and above

JAXP has been included in standard JDK package since JDK 1.4. You don't need to download anything JAR files separately to use JAXP.

JAXP API contains 3 groups of class packages:

1. Java API for XML Processing (JAXP) - The core interface packages.

2. Document Object Model (DOM) - DOM specific packages.

3. Simple API for XML (SAX) - SAX specific packages.

The default implementation classes of JAXP are from the Apache Xerces project.

Table of Contents

 About This Book

 Introduction to XML Schema

 XML Editor and Schema Processor - XMLPad

Java API for XML Processing - JAXP

What Is JAXP?

 Downloading and installing JDK

 Compiling and Running Java Programs

 XML File DOM Parser - XmlDomFileParser.java

 JAXP API Module (java.xml.jmod) - Packages and Classes

 JAXP - XML Schema (XSD) Validation

 Xerces2 Java Parser - Java API of XML Parsers

 Using Xerces2 Java APIs

 XML Schema Language - Basics

 Introduction of XSD Built-in Datatypes

 "string" and Its Derived Datatypes

 "decimal" and Its Derived Datatypes

 "dateTime" and Its Related Datatypes

 Miscellaneous Built-in Datatypes

 Facets, Constraining Facets and Restriction Datatypes

 "simpleType" - Defining Your Own Simple Datatypes

 Complex Element Declaration

 Identity-Constraints: unique, key and keyref

 Assertion as Custom Validation Rules

 XML Schema Location and Namespace in XML Documents

 Overriding Element Types in XML Documents

 Linking Multiple Schema Documents Together

 Glossary

 Archived Tutorials

 References

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